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defense is where the money was. if you want to control federal spending and have balanced budgets, control defense spending in the 1950s, and ike was able to do that despite tremendous pressure on him to spend more, spend more, spend more. the bomber gap, the missile gap. the democrats were crazy about this. interesting democrats wanted to spend more money on defense in 1950s, and ike was a solitary figure in his quiet way, working behind the scenes basically saying, and not the pentagon hype when the generals, i mean, air force said we got to have 87 air wings -- i don't know the precise number, but ike would go, no, we don't. that's a number they arbitrarily picked, but it takes a strong president to stand up to the punish. it was all quietly done, but he did it. yeah? >> what's this eisenhower story with the bay of pigs, and the plane and into the kennedy administration. >> sure, yep. ike, who did believe in covert operations and did not like castro, did authorize the cia to create an exile army of cuban exiles t
defense is where the money was. if you want to control federal spending and have balanced budgets, control defense spending in the 1950s, and ike was able to do that despite tremendous pressure on him to spend more, spend more, spend more. the bomber gap, the missile gap. the democrats were crazy about this. interesting democrats wanted to spend more money on defense in 1950s, and ike was a solitary figure in his quiet way, working behind the scenes basically saying, and not the pentagon hype...
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march of 1943, japanese-americans off the west coast, not manson are, but the camp outside the western defense command were allowed to reclaim their cameras. that's why bill manbo had a camera and is comfortable walking around in public. so what did he shoot? seashell parades. boy scout and is very active at heart mountain. here you've got the boy scout at the head of the parade with the american flag in the dry nature with the time just behind. and then maybe i'm not so classic american image. sumo wrestling is part just open my camp, very much again like the japanese culture being practiced with permission of the war relocation authority. if you could see the faces of the folks behind, it's clearly a light moment in this particular match. and looks as though the older gentleman has been pushed out of the ring by the younger guy others' cultural historians might see some interesting comic relief going on because there's a fair amount of unspoken intergenerational conflict at the camp between the immigrant generation. so there's a way in which the young man pushing the old man out of the ring
march of 1943, japanese-americans off the west coast, not manson are, but the camp outside the western defense command were allowed to reclaim their cameras. that's why bill manbo had a camera and is comfortable walking around in public. so what did he shoot? seashell parades. boy scout and is very active at heart mountain. here you've got the boy scout at the head of the parade with the american flag in the dry nature with the time just behind. and then maybe i'm not so classic american image....
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this would strengthen the navy in meeting its worldwide commitments and defense of our shores. i'm quoting exactly from the z gram. what this moment then was that women were to have open and equal access to candidate programs and service schools and were to be assigned to sea duty based on their qualifications. so what z gram 116 did -- and there were 115 before it -- so many of them had equal, equal type, equal kinds of changes. z gram 116 sought to achieve gender equality by removing almost all restrictions on opportunities and ratings. the ultimate goal being that women would serve on ships as sea as officers, crew and as combat pilots what's significant about this, historically, it's obviously a change that can't be undone, but when bud passed away the letters that came in from women who had their pilot wigs were the most -- wings were the most touching letters that i had the opportunity to read. i want to read one now. a retired naval aviator found a cartoon. sitting at the bar were two admirals crying in their beer above the caption, if god had wanted women at the naval a
this would strengthen the navy in meeting its worldwide commitments and defense of our shores. i'm quoting exactly from the z gram. what this moment then was that women were to have open and equal access to candidate programs and service schools and were to be assigned to sea duty based on their qualifications. so what z gram 116 did -- and there were 115 before it -- so many of them had equal, equal type, equal kinds of changes. z gram 116 sought to achieve gender equality by removing almost...
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syria's defense system was developed to counter israel. that's a sophisticated air force. libways not at all like that -- libya is not at all like that. it's very, very slippery slope. once you want to establish a no-fly zone -- establish a safe haven, you have to establish a no-fly zone and then the safe haven has to protect against are till rare fire? how do you do senate -- do that? a it's a slippery slope. i i was on washington journal a month ago and i was asked this question, and if we go in, or if we militarily either more aggressive support in terms of the military aid or boots on the ground, air toast support, what's hezbollah going to do sunset what's iran going to do? what's russia going to do? this is quite volatile and i don't think we have thought out all of the potential possibilities of getting involved in another quagmire in the middle east. and as i said, i have lots of friends there if there was an easy answer to this, if military intervention -- if there was any chance where there was limited damage, collateral damage to our buys -- i use at brook army
syria's defense system was developed to counter israel. that's a sophisticated air force. libways not at all like that -- libya is not at all like that. it's very, very slippery slope. once you want to establish a no-fly zone -- establish a safe haven, you have to establish a no-fly zone and then the safe haven has to protect against are till rare fire? how do you do senate -- do that? a it's a slippery slope. i i was on washington journal a month ago and i was asked this question, and if we go...
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back there. >> as congress deals with sequestration with respect to defense policy, defense spending, what lessons can we find from the way eisenhower solving? >> well, i wish eisenhower were around to do with congress today because he could get into compromise. in his own party of opposition on the far right complete do without part by getting along with southern democrats. he would get along with this committee chairman and was able to talk to them. all the comedy that existed in his day just doesn't exist today. i mean, when bob was giving ike a tough time and blew up at a meeting, ike took and golfing. they became good buddies but when taft died, taft was a friend. you know, ike knew how to turn on his personal china. he had extraordinary warmth. yes, he was difficult but he had a warmth and he would use it. on congressman. that's a we need today because we've got to get a deal. no way we are going fast but i think were going over the cliff, fiscal cliff here, and it's going to be a big crisis and everybody will wring their hands and then hopefully we're going to get a deal, which
back there. >> as congress deals with sequestration with respect to defense policy, defense spending, what lessons can we find from the way eisenhower solving? >> well, i wish eisenhower were around to do with congress today because he could get into compromise. in his own party of opposition on the far right complete do without part by getting along with southern democrats. he would get along with this committee chairman and was able to talk to them. all the comedy that existed in...
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that would be to my reading the concept of self defense. set -- interestingly, carolco had in his speech taken a very interesting view of what the use of force was in the context of cyber. most scholars would say there's a difference between use of force as spoken about in article ii sub paragraph iv and armed attack which is used in article li and he says in his view there is no difference, then we get to the further question, putting a piece of malware in somebody else's computers the use of force. it is an unfriendly act but not necessarily use of force but subject -- >> this is what you referred to. >> brought back on the table. [talking over each other] >> it is wrong to think about this from a legal point of view. i think of it from a work point of view. we have a situation where potentially there's an enormous did vantage to striking first in a cyberwar. first, you take out the other guy's power and internet service and a bunch of other things which makes it hard to launch a counter-attack. it has attractions plus you will have so ma
that would be to my reading the concept of self defense. set -- interestingly, carolco had in his speech taken a very interesting view of what the use of force was in the context of cyber. most scholars would say there's a difference between use of force as spoken about in article ii sub paragraph iv and armed attack which is used in article li and he says in his view there is no difference, then we get to the further question, putting a piece of malware in somebody else's computers the use of...
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at first the self-defense of funds for scorning female commune members from house to house, but then it became a campaign to clean up the streets themselves. by 1970 that neighborhood was having an affair when his speed. directly across from the good earth house upholstery. they decided they had to go peer calling the police was not considered an option since it would probably take the opportunity to raise the better past two. they had apparently abandoned to tooth and claw. the one-day group of the communes members including mccarthy, now known as mouseman simply paid the junkies a visit to commit them to leave. good earth took over the house, fix it up in the skin of some members. heroin dealers still roam the neighborhood, but good earth begin to run them out, too. one evening a smart pusher came down this flashy car, nearly running over several commune members. the good earth crew loudly that the dealer know what they thought of them. 10 minutes later, stepped out of his car with a gun. what are you going to do now he said keever and several other commune members began walking st
at first the self-defense of funds for scorning female commune members from house to house, but then it became a campaign to clean up the streets themselves. by 1970 that neighborhood was having an affair when his speed. directly across from the good earth house upholstery. they decided they had to go peer calling the police was not considered an option since it would probably take the opportunity to raise the better past two. they had apparently abandoned to tooth and claw. the one-day group...
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. >>> robert discusses the role that geography has played in shaping the defense and talks about the role that it plays in the future. this is about ten minutes. >> good evening, welcome and thank you for joining us. my name is richard fontaine. i'm the president for the center of new american security. it's a pleasure to welcome you all here to celebrate the publication of robert kaplan's new book the reason geography what they tell us about the coming conflict in the battle against the state. i've heard it said before that you all very great author by reading his books not by buying them -- they will be sold on the stage in this room back here. bald kaplan's work is known no doubt why this audience. he's been a senior fellow and in march of 2008 a foreign correspondent for the atlantic for about a quarter of a century and is currently the chief geopolitical analyst. i first became acquainted with his writing during his book with traces of history of the tight midwesterners living and working in the middle east. and since that book, the very titles of his work goes to the coming ana
. >>> robert discusses the role that geography has played in shaping the defense and talks about the role that it plays in the future. this is about ten minutes. >> good evening, welcome and thank you for joining us. my name is richard fontaine. i'm the president for the center of new american security. it's a pleasure to welcome you all here to celebrate the publication of robert kaplan's new book the reason geography what they tell us about the coming conflict in the battle...
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clearly one of the most germanic and various defense of this presidency was the cuban missile crisis in october 62 which all of us lived here as teenagers. talk a little bit if you would about how you think that crisis came to be and why it didn't result in a nuclear holocaust? >> guest: khrushchev actually made a big blunder in the cuban missile crisis and that was not just putting the missiles with nuclear warheads into cuba, it was not announcing that he had done so. he undermines his own deterrence. what he was trying to deter was the u.s. invasion of cuba. the united states have been planning an invasion and in fact we had a mock invasion planned for october of 62 called operation -- after the bay of pigs. or cusack as castro spelled backwards. the u.s. was in heavy planning mode for an invasion to overthrow after the disaster of the bay of pigs. we had also been running operation mongoose which was other contra insurgent should -- counterinsurgency program so was clear the u.s. was planning an invasion. khrushchev thought he could kill two birds with one stone by changing the b
clearly one of the most germanic and various defense of this presidency was the cuban missile crisis in october 62 which all of us lived here as teenagers. talk a little bit if you would about how you think that crisis came to be and why it didn't result in a nuclear holocaust? >> guest: khrushchev actually made a big blunder in the cuban missile crisis and that was not just putting the missiles with nuclear warheads into cuba, it was not announcing that he had done so. he undermines his...
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one of the most surprising things to me this thursday defense intelligence agency report, classified report that came out in 2002 that specifically said our intelligence on weapons of mass destruction is terrible. we can't establish any of the things we say to the public. i quote from that document pretty excessively. so that was disturbing and really did seem like it's something at the preconception conifers except you. if something didn't, it was taught aside. people doing the good work are the ones who is saying there is nothing there. >> huddy research a book like this? >> you willingly subject yourself to a greater amount of agony. the reporting started in 2006 and here we are in 2012. when i started, i thought i was doing to combat the ears of the bush administration and after many hundreds of hours of interviews i realize i could write 10 volumes and the heart of the story was that not a hundred feet. and i collect as many documents as a kurd. anybody sat down with me will say also to give me everything and i want it now. i take documents even if i don't know what roles they h
one of the most surprising things to me this thursday defense intelligence agency report, classified report that came out in 2002 that specifically said our intelligence on weapons of mass destruction is terrible. we can't establish any of the things we say to the public. i quote from that document pretty excessively. so that was disturbing and really did seem like it's something at the preconception conifers except you. if something didn't, it was taught aside. people doing the good work are...